February 2018

In February, we attended the HRD Summit 2018 conference in Birmingham, England. Having successfully presented on neurodiversity, we used our stand and other sessions to learn and share ideas with HR representatives from other organisations. We’ve gathered together our key takeaways.

At 11:14 am GMT on Sunday 11th February 2018, a JavaScript file which is part of our Browsealoud product was compromised during a cyber attack. The attacker added malicious code to the file to use the browser CPU in an attempt to illegally generate cryptocurrency. This was a criminal act and an investigation is underway. Original statement from Martin McKay, CTO, Texthelp.

At 11:14 am GMT on Sunday 11th February 2018, a JavaScript file which is part of the Texthelp Browsealoud product was compromised during a cyber attack. The attacker added malicious code to the file to use the browser CPU in an attempt to illegally generate cryptocurrency. This was a criminal act.